Pistol texas star project

[adamsredlines]

Had this in the works for the backyard range for a while. I have a rimfire one that I bought and it had 2" plates on it, and got 3" and 4" plates cut at work. Basically took that design, scaled it up and am hoping to have all parts cut in the next week or two. This is all 1/2" plate except for the retainer tabs...and I have a 3x3 sq tube post and a base frame to use at home. These are 8" plates which is the same size as the plates at Red Castle. Will rotate on about a 4ft circle. Anywho, will update as parts get cut/assembled.

 

[adamsredlines]

Also had an extra spinner cut a few weeks ago...so I have a backup, or if I end up with a wider berm I can have two going.

 

[adamsredlines]

Some parts fresh off the laser

 

[adamsredlines]

The darker "brown" plate is T1 steel, which is what targets were made out of for ages until AR500 hit the market. I guess they had a scrap piece of that and I get an extra set of plates cut from it

 

[adamsredlines]

Gonna need some tweaking on the retention/release mechanism, but getting close!

 

[adamsredlines]

Release mechanism is essentially a scaled up version of the one on my rimfire Texas Star target I bought...just seems to be "sticky".

 

[Beautiful Mulberry]

Well built! You did great!

 

[Ndenway]

Hell of a deal.........

 

[JEVapa]

post a video once you got it painted and running

 

[KurtM]

Take your angle grinder and put a bevel on all the edges of the plate where it attached to the arms, sticking will be alleviated. Gotta do that on all socket type stars.

 

[adamsredlines]

That was going to be step one, then maybe loosen up tolerance some on the female part of the socket if needed.

 

[adamsredlines]

Got busy but had some time to tinker with this, getting a few parts recut and ordered new springs. Thinking clearly now, it should hopefully be good to go once I get the updated parts.